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Sadly Over-hyped

Good concept, poorly executed.

Fanciful, disturbing, and wildly original, it announces the arrival of a fresh, bold voice in American cinema.

what a terribly boring film. I'm sorry but this is absolutely not deserving of best picture and will be forgotten quickly. Entertaining and engaging cinema? No. Nothing performances with flat faces and mistaking silence for subtlety.

This was and is a classic. Snuck in theatre to binge see it 3xs in one day @8yo. Aerosmith, Tina Turner, Steve Martin, and George Burns...too many Easter eggs to list. Academy Award worthy? Uh, OBVIOUSLY not. Pleasantly cheesy&Not the best for anybody under 40, now, I guess, unless...you're able to keep an open mind to see the sign of that time. It's fun guys, geez- back when pop musicals were big...and so were the BeeGees&Frampton. Simple, innocent FUN.

The decade of disco, the 70s was ruled by the BeeGees especially after the release of Saturday Night Fever. So this film starring them with Peter Frampton should have been a slam dunk with the box office and the critics. It was neither and the critics really pounced on it.Post 1965 Beatles music formed the score of Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band and the film is essentially fantasy opera. Frampton is in the title role and the BeeGees were the other band members.No use to describing a plot, knitting the whole film together and giving it some structure is the voice of George Burns who utters the only speaking words in the film. I guess no one asked sugar throat Burns to sing.A bunch of guest artists are here and if you are into that decade's music as well as Lennon-McCartney you will enjoy the film no matter what the critics say. They weren't kind, but I don't think it was that bad.The kaleidoscopic colors of the decade's fashions really kind of overwhelm the viewer. That and the fact that Peter Frampton was the prettiest one in the film. Some of the scenes come close to soft core porn.But it's the music you want with a film like Sergeant Pepper so sit back and enjoy.

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is a movie that embodies everything hideous, gaudy, inane, silly, bizarre and banal about the latter half of the 1970's. Where else can you see a decrepit octogenarian (George Burns) sing a really bad cover of "Fixing a Hole" with his frog voice and flat intonation? I could describe the sound of his voice as dirty water gurgling down a rusty drainpipe, but that may not be vivid enough. Where else can you see a revivalist band of brothers dressed in effeminate costumes posing as colorfully dressed sailors? Where else can we get a plot, or numerous subplots for that matter, all in one sophomoric land waste of celluloid? Well folks, it happened in this cringe inducing picture. Indeed. But I must not dismiss the edification of my assessment just yet. Something is amiss when we normally castigate movies like this: the well intended, the offbeat, the misguided and the noble attempts to combine that which is lovable and popular into our own creative soup. A rehash of ideas you may call it. or even lofty aspirations for those who thought they knew better.Peter Frampton had recently earned staggering success from a record selling album while his costars, The BeeGees, shared equal success with their Saturday Night Fever album. The Beatles were still very popular even they they had been disbanded for nearly a decade. So the Hollywood mavens and the Record companies put their Acid/Cocaine induced heads together and created this travesty. Well, I guess you had to be there to understand and appreciate it.People who were born after 1978, specifically Generation Y and millenials wouldn't understand the creation of a movie like this like I would. Having been born in 1968 and having seen a massive convergence of styles, pop culture and the departure from old fashioned norms was still very new. Today, it's not only hip to depart from tradition, it's a ubiquitous endemic. And so my friends, SPLHCL ferments in the annals of cinema history as an enormous blunder and embarrassment to those who were involved. Strangely enough, The Beatles weren't, in any way, involved with this production.

Yeah. This is a train-wreck of a movie. But, even the Beatles worst madcap movie, Magical Mystery Tour, is no gem. Their movies had a hand-held, home movie style. What's sad about this one is they seemed to pile on a lot of talent and throw dazzle at it. I doubt anyone can justify the dripping cheeseburger as a centrepiece in the main square? That said, 38yrs later, this does have it's good moments. Singing by the BeeGees, Peter Frampton, Aerosmith, EWF and Billy Preston I enjoyed. I don't usually like to hear other artist do The Beatles songs. Last, where will you ever see Carol Channing singing with Tina Turner? Crappy movie? Yes. Worth a look? Yes, at fast-foreword.